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*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?"|Response to section: "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?"]] {{InProgress}} | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?"|Response to section: "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?"]] {{InProgress}} | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"|Response to section: "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"|Response to section: "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"]] | ||
| − | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"Other events/claims that science has discredited"|Response to section: "Other events/claims that science has discredited"]] | + | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"Other events/claims that science has discredited"|Response to section: "Other events/claims that science has discredited"]] |
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"the sun gets its light from Kolob"|Response to section: "the sun gets its light from Kolob"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"the sun gets its light from Kolob"|Response to section: "the sun gets its light from Kolob"]] | ||
*[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"|Response to section: "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"]] | *[[Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Science Concerns & Questions#"They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"|Response to section: "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"]] | ||
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|summary=How do we deal with the fact that there is no scientific evidence of a worldwide flood? How can the scriptures and prophets teach of a worldwide flood, when this contradicts the evidence? The biodiversity of plants and animals on the earth could not have occurred within the span of a few thousand years. Did the continents separate during the flood of Noah? Doctrine and Covenants 133:23–24 seems to imply that they did. How do we reconcile this to scientific fact? Didn't Brigham Young, John Taylor and Orson Pratt teach that the Flood was the baptism of the Earth? | |summary=How do we deal with the fact that there is no scientific evidence of a worldwide flood? How can the scriptures and prophets teach of a worldwide flood, when this contradicts the evidence? The biodiversity of plants and animals on the earth could not have occurred within the span of a few thousand years. Did the continents separate during the flood of Noah? Doctrine and Covenants 133:23–24 seems to imply that they did. How do we reconcile this to scientific fact? Didn't Brigham Young, John Taylor and Orson Pratt teach that the Flood was the baptism of the Earth? | ||
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| + | ===="Other events/claims that science has discredited"==== | ||
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| + | |claim=The author wants to know the answer to "other events/claims that science has discredited." | ||
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| + | *Latter-day Saints believe that God is, in essence, the greatest scientist of all. We also acknowledge that we are continually learning. To assume that we now have all the answers is simply naive. The 9th Article of Faith states: | ||
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| + | We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | |quotes= | ||
| + | *Church leaders have voice their opinions regarding science and religion: | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.{{ref|eyring.2}}<br> | ||
| + | —Henry Eyring, developer of the Absolute Rate Theory of chemical reactions: One of the most important developments of 20th-century chemistry. | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular...whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.<br> | ||
| + | —{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=14|start=116|disc=16|date=May 14, 1871}} | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | Latter-day Saints should strive to use both science and religion to extend knowledge and to build faith. But those who do so must guard against the significant risk that efforts to end the separation between scientific scholarship and religious faith will only promote a substandard level of performance, where religion and science dilute one another instead of strengthening both.<br><br>For some, an attempt to mingle reason and faith can result in irrational scholarship or phony religion, either condition demonstrably worse than the described separation.<br> | ||
| + | —{{Book:Oaks:Life's Lessons Learned|pages=58-59}} | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
}} | }} | ||
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Contents
- 1 Response to "Science Concerns & Questions"
- 1.1 Quick Navigation
- 1.2 Response Section
- 1.2.1 "no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the 'Fall of Adam'"
- 1.2.2 "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"
- 1.2.3 "Other events/claims that science has discredited"
- 1.2.4 "the sun gets its light from Kolob"
- 1.2.5 "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"
Response to "Science Concerns & Questions"
| [[../Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions|Temples & Freemasonry Concerns & Questions]] | A FAIR Analysis of:
[[../|Letter to a CES Director]] |
[[../Scriptures Concerns & Questions|Scriptures Concerns & Questions]] |
- Response to section: "no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the 'Fall of Adam'"
- Response to section: "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"
- Response to section: "Other events/claims that science has discredited"
- Response to section: "the sun gets its light from Kolob"
- Response to section: "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?"